WATCH | Executive producerCommon and actor Trevor Jackson discuss the importance of highlighting the black male experience in a black fraternity at a historically black college at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival premiere of Burning Sands in Park City, Utah.

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Burning Sands takes audiences on a raw, voyeuristic journey of fraternity pledging through the eyes of one favored pledgee (Trevor Jackson), who is torn between honoring a code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing.

This Netflix Original, directed by Gerard McMurray, focuses on a black fraternity at a historically black college.